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Driven To Fail with Sam Smith

Hagerty Media

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 8

Driven to Fail is an automotive podcast about failure hosted by journalist Sam Smith. Each episode focuses on a different successful person in the car business, examining how we learn to pick ourselves back up after falling down. First-season guests include the man behind Ken Block's broken Pikes Peak Porsche, a racing driver who nearly died at the wheel, and a retired Ford executive who helped save thousands of lives.

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🇨🇦 Canada - automotive
20/08/2026
#45
🇨🇦 Canada - automotive
14/08/2026
#80
🇨🇦 Canada - automotive
13/08/2026
#62
🇨🇦 Canada - automotive
12/08/2026
#36
🇬🇧 Great Britain - automotive
04/01/2026
#96
🇬🇧 Great Britain - automotive
03/01/2026
#79
🇬🇧 Great Britain - automotive
02/01/2026
#58
🇨🇦 Canada - automotive
16/12/2025
#95
🇨🇦 Canada - automotive
15/12/2025
#78
🇨🇦 Canada - automotive
14/12/2025
#60

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The man who was "The Stainless Steel Carrot" - Driven to Fail w/ Sam Smith, Ep 8 - John Morton

Season 1 · Episode 8

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 • Duration 01:10:55

Does ambition make us who we are? Can you ever really see yourself as others do? Around 30 years ago, in middle school, I discovered a book called The Stainless Steel Carrot. It tells the true story of a young man once loved by thousands, a 1970s hero whose actions helped kick off a national movement and who now lives a quiet, retired life in Southern California. John Morton got his start sweeping floors for the legendary Carroll Shelby, but he always wanted to get to the top—to open-wheel, to Indy cars, possibly even Formula 1. A goal is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it’s hard to get anywhere if you don’t know where you want to go. On the other hand, it’s entirely possible to have a successful life without landing the one thing you’ve wanted forever. Does missing a goal like that make you a failure? Of course not. But it can change how you see what you did accomplish. Driven to Fail is a podcast about what happens when things go wrong. What we do when life falls apart, and what we learn when we try to put it back together. Brought to you by the Hagerty Podcast Network. This is the final episode of Season 1. Thank you for listening!

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The 200-MPH Psychologist - Driven to Fail w/ Sam Smith, Ep 7 - Ross Bentley

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 • Duration 01:18:55

How much can you learn from teaching someone? If you put everything on the line and nearly lost it, would you try again the next day? Ross Bentley is a pioneering driver coach, a teacher, a storyteller, and a bestselling author who nearly burned alive while trying to qualify for the Indy 500. He makes his living by studying the human condition under pressure. Bentley's Speed Secrets books, first published in the 1990s, reimagined the mental side of motorsport. As a younger man, he was a BMW factory driver in E36 M3s, he drove Ferrari prototypes, he won the 24 Hours of Daytona. We talked about self-improvement, learning, good and bad days at 200 mph, and why, above all, you never stop trying to get better. Driven to Fail is a podcast about what happens when things go wrong. What we do when life falls apart, and what we learn when we try to put it back together. Brought to you by the Hagerty Podcast Network.

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